Lynn René Bayley gives a strong recommendation to Ellen Taafe Zwilich: Cello Concerto and Other Works featuring Zuill Bailey and the Santa Rosa Symphony: “Zwilich’s well-known combination of tonal, melodic music with modes and modern harmonies tossed in for flavor are clearly on display here, but so too is Zuill Bailey’s cello. In fact…I can’t…
Oksana Dyka, Constantine Orbelian, and the Kaunas City Symphony’s In Questa Reggia recording is an Opera News Critic’s Choice! “Ukrainian Soprano Oksana Dyka’s debut solo album is a welcome throwback… In Questa Reggia, which takes its name from the title track, is a statement piece, featuring twelve of the most well-known and difficult arias in…
The September/October issue of American Record Guide features a review for Ben Moore’s Gathering album: “The songs are put over in fine style by a terrific group of singers. Soprano Janai Brugger has done Mahler 4 with Yannick in Philadelphia, Isabel Leonard is a Cherubino and Dorabella of note, and lyric tenor Matthew Polenzani is…
The September/October 2022 issue of American Record Guide features a review of Eleonor Bindman’s J.S. Bach Partitas recording: “what a marvelous Bach performer… The prelude from Partita 1 is deliciously slow and expressive, with unexpected marking of inner voices, beautiful ornamentation, shimmering tone.… There’s not a bad movement in the bunch, so I will list…
“The music of the American composer Ellen Taaffe Zwilich is well-represented in the DELOS CD Ellen Taaffe Zwilich: Cello Concerto & Other Works… Also featured in the recording are cellist Zuill Bailey, playing both elegantly and fiercely in Ellen Taaffe Zwilich’s inmensely melodic Cello Concerto, the pianist Elizabeth Dorman bringing to life Zwilich’s Peanuts Gallery for Piano and Orchestra, an enchantingly…
Eleonor Bindman’s Bach Partitas recording receives an in-depth review from MusicWeb International: “Suitably humbled by the inexhaustible greatness of Bach, I can say that…I have listened to these recordings a lot. With long stretches of music such as the complete Partitas, it helps to have a personable guide and Bindman is certainly that. … Bindman…
German Magazine, Rondo, has a new ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ review for Eleonor Bindman’s J.S. Bach: Partitas recording: “Bindman’s very special ability to breathe life into the musical events and to give every theme, every figure a shape, even a human profile, also characterizes the fast dances, which never slip into mere motor skills, but are lived through…
Phil Muse reviews Oksana Dyka, Constantine Orbelian, and Kaunas City Symphony’s In Questa Reggia recording in the June issue of the Atlanta Audio Club’s Classical Corner: “Oksana Dyka is a phenomenal singer with a very mature soprano voice for one who still appears to be in her youth. … That mature voice throughout every part of her…
Phil Muse reviews Lawrence Brownlee, Sarah Coburn, and Constantine Orbelian’s I Puritani recording in the June issue of the Atlanta Audio Club’s Classical Corner: “Sarah Coburn has all the qualifications to be the Bellini soprano for her own generation, as witness the stratospheric heights to which she soars in her two arias as Elvira in…
Eleonor Bindman’s Bach: Partitas recording makes an appearance in Fanfare Magazine’s “Not To Be Missed” section after a rave review from Raymond Tuttle: “Bindman takes issue with performers who speed through this music—and there are plenty of them. Their work is impressive on a technical level, but not always musically illuminating. It’s not that she…
Olga Kern and the Dalí Quartet’s Brahms & Shostakovich Piano Quintets recording gets a warm recommendation from MusicWeb International: “Their performance of Shostakovich’s Piano Quintet opens with a deliberately paced, but never heavy “Prelude,” whose breadth is sustained by Kern’s noble tone and bronzen voicing, as well as the Dalís’ discreet, but effective swooping. Together…
Today, May 29, 2022, marks the 50th Anniversary of the death of composer Margaret Ruthven Lang (1867-1972). Margaret Ruthven Lang is probably one the most important women in American music but is much less well known today than her contemporaries like Amy Marcy Beach. Delos has been thrilled to have released four recordings of her…
Olga Kern and the Dalí Quartet’s Brahms & Shostakovich Piano Quintets are in the April Editor’s Corner of The Whole Note Magazine: “The contemplative spirit of the opening movements is interrupted by a truly joyous, ebullient Scherzo lasting a brief three minutes. A languorous Intermezzo follows before a playful and melodious Finale brings this beloved…
Colin Clarke reviews Jonah Kim and Robert Koenig’s Approaching Autumn release featuring Grieg, Kodály, and Mark Abel in Fanfare Magazine: “This disc, titled Approaching Autumn, is a real statement from the heart for Korean-born cellist Jonah Kim… his aim is to find “common areas” between people(s) and to learn “what we all actually care about.”…
PianoDao has named Eleonor Bindman’s Bach: Partitas recording a May 2022 Recording of the Month! “Bindman’s approach, very sensibly, is to let this amazing music speak for itself. Opting for unhurried tempi, she approaches the dance movements with poise, her playing throughout the cycle an object lesson in perfectly balanced voicing and articulation. …In my…
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